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Marian Kamensky, Slovakia / Cagle Cartoons By Dana Milbank / 12.28.2016 Washington Post Columnist “Spare us the...
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By Carole Raddato / 05.12.2016 Historian Exactly 1900 years ago¹, Hadrian survived a violent and devastating earthquake...
A couple walk in the Israeli settlement of Maale Edumim, in the occupied West Bank on December...
12.21.2016 45-year-old Rakesh Shukla is a talented software engineer and CEO of a successful tech company, but...
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Photo by Adam Johansson. Continuing to shrink our oil consumption is one way to challenge the oil...